Ludhiana: District administration will make mask settings, gloves, thermal scanning, sanitiser, PPE kit, face shield, and others in all 2,979 ludhiana polling booth in Punjab.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (Jagraon) -Cum-Nodal Officer Dr.
Nayan Jassal said that in accordance with the Indian Election Commission (ECI) instructions, the government is committed to conducting free, fair, transparent and safe elections during a pandemic.
He said that Ludhiana had 2,979 polling booths in all 14 district assembly segments where Covid security measures would be applied to ensure the safety of voters and voting staff.
He said that voters must wear a mandatory mask, maintain social distance, and thermal screening will be ascertained at the entrance of all polling rooms that have been carried out by ANMS workers, Ashas and Angganwari have been declared as Covid Control Booth Nodal officers.
He said that voters would be given gloves for one hand they would use to sign and press the voting machine button.
Jassal said that those who record high temperatures or have suspicious symptoms will be asked to come and choose in the past hour on the Voting Day (February 20).
He said that voter safety and polling personnel were the main concern and complicated arrangements for the management of bio-medical waste from the waste produced in all these pollic booths had been carried out.
He added that one yellow and red bin has been given to each polling room where this waste will be discarded and then, the bio-waste will be discarded scientifically by private companies after gathering from all cubicles for central collection of each electoral district.